Object Details
- Description
- Bottle, fragment of shoulder and neck.
- Clay: porcelain.
- Glaze: clear.
- Decoration: in cobalt pigment under the glaze. Chrysanthemum design.
- Mark: none.
- Inscription on base by John Pope: Nakashirakawa.
- Inscriptions
- "Nakashirakawa" inscribed in black grease paint by John A. Pope.
- Collection
- Freer Study Collection
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 1630-1650
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. John Alexander Pope, 1956
- Medium
- Porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear glaze
- Dimensions
- W: 9.6 cm (3 3/4 in)
- Style
- Arita ware
- Type
- Vessel
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